Hoary installation report on Sony VGN-S3XP

Jerrac dlist at ubuntuforums.org
Mon May 16 21:56:02 CDT 2005


Rasputin Wrote: 
> 

> I'm not sure if (but I think) the nvidia GeForce Go 6200 is responsible
> for some heavy graphic distortions that appear sometimes during work
> with an programm (mostely with the Firefox broser) that covers the
> whole desktop with colorful snow all over. The only way out ther is to
> log (and pray) our or reboot completely. But even after a reboot the
> color resolution sometimes stays wrong and psychodelic. One problem is
> also the text cursor which freezes disappears or replicates itself a
> hundred times inside a text field (like this one) during writing with a
> GNOME program (but not in a terminal). This could also be a graphic card
> issue - but I'm not sure. 

> 



A question unrelated to your problem, but did your card use the
TurboCache correctly? As in did it use the system RAM for graphics as
well as the little bit on the actual card?


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Jerrac



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